LINKING 10 YEARS OF MODULAR DESIGN RESEARCH: ALTERNATIVE METHODS AND TOOL CHAIN SEQUENCES TO SUPPORT PRODUCT PLATFORM DESIGN

Modular product platforms have been shown to provide substantial cost and time savings while still allow ing companies to offer a variety of products. As a result, a mul titude of product platform methods have been developed over the last decade within the design research community. However, comparison and integration of suitable methods is d ifficult since the methods have, for the most part, been developed in isolation from one another. In reviewing the literature in m odularity and product platforms, we create a generic set of twelv e platform design activities. We then examine a set of produc t platform development processes used at several different companies, and from this form a generic sequence of the activities . We then associate the various developed methods to the sequ ence, thereby enabling the chaining together of the vario us modular and platform design methods developed by the community.

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